Jonathan Waddingham is the charity champion for the UK’s largest online fundraising platform, JustGiving. He’s responsible for sharing donor and fundraiser insight based on the trends of JustGiving’s 10 million users, communicating research and analysis and helping charities make the most of the Internet.

He writes about things like Facebook for fundraisers on the JustGiving charities blog and ‘Measuring the impact of a Fry Tweet’on his own Professional Fundraising blog. He regularly speaks at charity events across the UK about trends in online fundraising and how charities can use social media to engage supporters.

You can find him on Twitter @jon_bedford (he’s from Bedford) and he’s one of the founders of the popular #NFPTweetup events for charities using Twitter. When not on Twitter, he spends more time than is healthy taking photos of food he cooks and sharing them on Flickr.

Peter Bouvier works as the social media editor for a Government body. A strong academic background and checkered career history of teaching, project management and planning enable him to bluff his way through most interviews. His personal Twitter account can be found @iBoov.

Peter has delusions of grandeur and is currently working on a trilogy of epic children’s poems called the Tales of Tikulo.

In the last two years, Peter’s life has been derailed by two young children – Joseph and Audrey.

Gareth Harmer is the archetypal tinkerer, experimenting with hardware and software undoubtedly somewhere secretly creating the next Google Nexus one in his garden shed.

Whilst he is not fulfilling desire to deconstruct old computer, tech and software he is working on product designs with a Mobile Telco operator in the UK.

‘Gazimoffs geekblog‘ is home to his musings and he can be found on Twitter at @gazimoff

Stuart Witts, or the Tall Man with Glasses, began his career in digital marketing back when the term social media referred to the act of writing ones name on the side of the railway lines. This was a time before Dreamweaver, when the humble Notepad was the only HTML editor of choice.

During his time online Stuart has worked with a variety of clients from both the B2C and B2B sectors, starred in a Sun Microsystems commercial , produced a range of designer toys branded a sandwich shop and sold over 200 t-shirts.

When not designing, Stuart tweets as @stuartwitts and blogs about anything and everything and is currently hoping to save the World via the medium of random conversation with the hiproject.

Dan Slee works in Local Government PR for Walsall Council. Dan helped to set up the @walsallcouncilTwitter feed and currently advises on all aspects of Social Media for the authority.

A co-founder member of the Black Country Social Media Café, Dan spent 12 years as a local newspaper journalist and believes that he may well be the only person on Twitter who started his media career cleaning pages of lead type on a hot metal newspaper.

Dan blogs about local government and social media at www.danslee.wordpress.com and he can also be found on Twitter@danslee where he tweets on a range of crucial – real life – subjects, including cake, being a parent and – from 3pm on a Saturday – Stoke City FC.

George Spencer is an all round new media generalist, hailing from idyllic Lambeth, Greater London. His C.V. already includes a stint with Apple, where he spent most of his time in a very small office telling business customers that they didn’t need anti-virus software in lieu of any meaningful work. He has managed a team of bawdy designers for one of the UK’s biggest B2B directories, and worked on interfaces for iPhone applications with GoZooMoo.

When not taunting Media140’s resident e-commerce guru @benjamindyer about the latter’s questionable sartorial taste, he can be found at the cricket and on Twitter. He has been known to blog and is currently available for hire.

Paul Farrell is an Australian freelance journalist and blogger who writes about the constant conflict in the world around us. He has a passion for engaging with the tools of the new media world, and is excited about the incredible changes occurring now.

He plans to travel to Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan (if they will let him in) and blog about the aspects of these countries that we often don’t get a chance to see.

He blogs at http://paulfarrell.wordpress.com/ on topics ranging from abuses of police powers to human rights issues across the globe, and sometimes simply a description of what he ate for breakfast (toasted cheese sandwich usually). He can be found on twitter at http://twitter.com/paulfarrell89.

Kristy Bourne joined the team at Wonderful Creative after spending a number of years working as a local newspaper journalist.

Trained in multimedia journalism, Kristy is able to turn her hand to features writing, design and video journalism. She has also spent time working as a radio broadcaster and freelancing for magazines.

Kristy is passionate about social justice and transparency in the media and PR industry. She is also a keen horse rider.

Michelle Fielding is only a few exams away from graduating from her degree in Journalism/Arts at the University of Canberra. Having grown up in the capital of Australia, Michelle has worked for a variety of media outlets and is currently enjoying the “antics” of the federal politicians while working in the press gallery at Parliament House for Fairfax media.

This has been an experience which might convert her to politics for the rest of her career. Michelle is nevertheless keen to travel the world first and experience life from a different point of view. She twitters @mlfielding.

Bohdana Szydlik is currently finishing off her Journalism / International Studies degree at the University of Canberra. After spending the past year working as a breakfast radio producer at a local Canberra talkback station, she spends a lot of her time enjoying sleep-ins and staying up past 8.00pm.

Discovering new interests every day, from international relations to new media , Bohdana is trying to experience as much as possible before graduating.

She twitters @danaszy and will one day get around to setting up her own blog.

Kate Walton is used to identifying herself as a student, but as of November 1, she can do so no longer. She has just finished writing her Honours thesis on the reproductive rights of young women in post-Suharto Indonesia, and is currently contemplating her future.

Kate is an aspiring (photo) journalist and plans to spend 2010 travelling overseas and volunteering in Southeast Asia. She blogs here and tweets here.

Emma Kemp is a University of Technology journalism student in Sydney and is on the threshold of graduation. With a passion for political reporting, war journalism and policy making in developing countries, you could say she is an all rounder – or just downright confused.

She has worked casually at News Limited’s news.com.au for the last two years in an attempt to get with the online times and arm herself with enough experience to be one of those “forward thinking journalists”.

Alison Gow is the Executive Editor, Digital, for Trinity Mirror Merseyside, a role which includes developing and implementing digital, broadcast and online engagement strategies and projects for the Liverpool Daily Post, the Liverpool Echo and several weekly titles.

Alison has worked in regional daily papers around the UK for the past 20 years; however, her “Road to Damascus” moment came when she was placed on UCLan’s Journalism Leaders Course in 2007 and discovered the opportunities for news-gathering, information-sharing, debate and interaction which Social Media and digital tools offer.

Alison blogs at headlinesanddedlines.blogspot.com, and at the weekends, when she is not ski-ing, she can often be found motorcycling at high speed around Derbyshire and North Wales.

Dan Martin was recently named as one of the top 10 most influential political bloggers on Twitter by The Independent and Tweetminster and is frequently asked to deliver training on social networking to senior PR executives and entrepreneurs. He has been editor of www.BusinessZone.co.uk for three years and has eight years experience of creating content online.

Dan has written copy for a host of leading business organisations including the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and regularly appears in the national press as an expert on business and social networking. He also recently delivered a presentation on social media to 250 delegates at the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies’ annual conference and chaired a roundtable discussion featuring Dragons’ Den panellist James Caan.

For the past year, Dan has been PR manager for ethical and Fairtrade babycare start-up www.DaisychainBaby.co.uk. He has secured coverage of the company in publications including the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and Real Business.

Dan can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Dan_Martin and www.twitter.com/BusinessZone and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/danmartin2008

Daniel Bennett is a PhD Candidate in the War Studies Department at King’s College, London. He studies the impact of blogging on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism with some help from the good people at the BBC College of Journalism.

When he should be constructing thoughtful prose for his thesis, he more often ends up scribbling random thoughts about social media and war for the Frontline Club, on his own blog, and on Twitter.

Daniel also does a spot of training and teaching for the War Studies Dept, the BBC, and the Frontline Club. In his spare time, he likes to get outside to compensate for the hours he used to spend sitting in student newsrooms and libraries and now spends staring at blogs on screens.

Tom Griffiths is Head of Business Development at digital design agency Push Digital. He does not claim to be the ill-fated social media ‘guru’, nor an SEO whiz, but he does like to talk about these things…a lot.

Having started ranting at University (on the use of rhetoric in politics as the ‘language of persuasion’, whilst studying German), Tom hasn’t really stopped ranting since. He has a passion for language and how it works, its influence on the consumer and the consumer’s influence on language. Fan of acronyms, digital Dad, and general Twitter nuisance, Tom is an intermittent verbal sniper within the digital marketing industry

Tom (@TomGriffola) tweets about social media, design, and SEO, rants about grammar, chats rugby, laments nature, and shares the escapades of Milo (3) and Tabitha (1).

Chantal Wegrzyn ( – sounds like “engine” with a “W” in front…) Chantal is a Graphic Designer for the Wonderful Creative Agency, and is quite excited about the fact that she is now ‘getting into Twitter’ – better late than never.

Chantal has been working in the industry for four years since gaining her BA in Graphic Design at Lancaster University. She is a bit of a feeder and her specialist skill is banoffie pie. Chantal loves any combination of design and food, eg. beautiful cookery books, Scott Rogers, oh and Alan Partridge.

David White co-manages the Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) e-learning research and development group based at the University of Oxford.

At TALL, he is responsible for the production and delivery of a wide range of on-line distance courses, on a wide range of subjects encompassing philosophy, art, literature, economics, history and nano-technology. His global student body is aged from 18 to 72, giving him excellent insight into how very distinct individuals approach the web.

David released some of the very earliest ‘Web 2.0’ data to identify that the boundaries between ‘social’, ‘studying’ and ‘professional’ are all now blurring. A subsequent interest was Massively Multiplayer on-line games such as World of Warcraft, which he considers to be the apex of social media (although he does not play himself, in order to preserve his objectivity).

His University base enables David to ask the ‘but what does it all mean?’ type of question. He can often be found at edtech conferences, trying to twist the debate away from ‘shiny’ technology towards a more social science approach.

David resides on the web in blog form and as @daveowhite. He enjoys film, attempting to play the mandolin and terrifying himself by taking part in open-mic comedy nights. He is comfortable presenting his ideas to anyone who is willing to listen.

Damien Austin-Walker is Head of Online & Tech for volunteering charity TimeBank. He leads strategy for the above disciplines and additionally works alongside the other senior managers on overall organizational strategy. He has already headed up numerous developments and is always looking for creative ways of using the social web for good; believing that through on-line collaboration, the voluntary and community sector can draw on greater resources and smarter ways of working for increased recognition and impact.

Damien studied Physics and then spent four years as a customer relations executive, before retraining as a programmer and web developer. He likes to think this provides the ideal balance for working at the event horizon where social humans and the communications technology of the Internet meet. On top of his day job, Damien volunteers for Twestival (a global meet up for Twitter users that takes place in over 100 cities worldwide to raise money for charity) – as part of the London Twestival team.

Damien’s passions include technology, open source communities, gardening and winemaking and brewing.

Ben Werdmuller is a co-founder of Elgg, the open source social networking platform. He has worked extensively with organisations who want to create and foster innovative web communities. He’s also really good at making Indonesian food.

You can find him on Twitter as @benwerd; alternatively, check out his blog at benwerd.com, or head over to the Victoria Arms in Oxford on a Sunday afternoon. Ben lives in Oxford and works for the highest bidder.

Chris Doyle, AKA @cyberdoyle is a farmer’s wife who lives on a remote upland family farm in the northern English county of Lancashire.

She joined the quest for broadband in 2003, when she found that her work as a graphic artist could no longer be competitive without a fast connection. She now helps to run two WiFi networks which deliver connections to areas where there is BT market failure, thus enabling several rural businesses to stay viable.

The first network is a research network for a university (a Living Lab), the other is a CIC (Community Interest Company, thus not for profit). Chris has laid and lit the first rural fibre to the home to connect neighbours to the broadband connection at her farm – simply to prove that it could be done.

She is a JEDI who is JFDI. She is working for the future generations because she gets IT. Chris works entirely as a volunteer and is thus accountable to nobody. Her opinions are her very much her own, but she has now spent years researching extensively on this subject. Chris would like to thank everyone who helped with this look at BET and actively welcomes any constructive contributions to the discussion.

Steve Jackson – also known as Our Man – is an experienced journalist, PR and marketing manager and sometime freelance copywriter, originally from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Five years ago, he decided to give something back, signing up for a VSO posting overseas, originally to a favoured destination, Vietnam. A subsequent spell in Nicaragua was followed by a year back in Newcastle working as a public affairs officer for the City Council. Steve was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Social Media and has several well-followed blogs to his name. He is a 10K+ Tweeter; @ourman has more than 1500 followers.

Steve has just done another VSO stint in Bamenda, Cameroon but is now back en route to Vietnam where he will be blogging at ourmaninhanoi.com